I’ll get this started this week with a picture of two Central of Georgia RS-3s double heading up a ridge on my layout. This is about a 3% grade on a 22 inch r. curve and I often use one of the engines, posted at the bottom as a helper to push, on long trains. The helper drops off at the top on a passing siding or goes by downhill to a spur track. The engines are made by Atlas, HO scale.
Jarrell
**Jarell…**Good looking shot [tup].
Here’s a rusted/used up boxcar I did.
Jarrell … You have very good scenery there. Alcos look good.
Robby … Nice weathering on the bocar.
Here is a view of some scenery I completed this week. The caboose is atthe rear of a slow moving train on the branch line.
Garry:
Very nice shot. I particularly like the details on the house. Almost looks like a photo backdrop[:)]
Not much for me, other than still working on weathering cars. This week’s victims…
Jarrell, love the colors of those Alcos. Great shot.
Robby, great weathered boxcar.
HD, very nice nostalgic shot.
Scarpia, nice weathering.
East bound Alco RS1 passing through. DJ.
Here is my contribution this week or some cars I have recently completed.
This is an old Athearn Railbox car, painted in Yellow and Blue with a Galvanized Roof, Details West Cushioned Underframe and finished with Herald King Decals.
This is an Athearn 86’ High Cube Boxcar, Painted GTW Blue and finished with Herald King Decals.
Thanks for looking!
Rick
Nice pics everyone!
Well, I’ve done a lot recently. I needed more dirt for the layout, so I sold some stock and started a dirt mining operation ;). This would be an excellent place for a Garden RR. Through out neighbor’s back yard, across the street, a 200 yard 9% incline up the hill, a return loop, an automatic dumping station, and engine facilities down the hill.
And here is the refinement station:
Needless to say, mother wasn’t too happy. On another note, I started tearing up track. There was a problematic section that I felt could go. It wasn’t really necessary.
I got some more plaster and replastered some mountains as well:
Thats all I have now.
We went on vacation to Steamboat Springs, Colorado. I was up on the mountain skiing when I heard a train whistle. With my little pocket camera, this is the best shot I could get of a coal drag way down in the valley between the town and the mountains.
It looked to me that that relatively short train had two engines up front, one behind, and another pair in the middle of the train. I figured that the terrain was hilly enough that they needed that much power to get the loaded hoppers up the hills.
Ok i admit it it’s time for me to get new glasses Mr B
But next time could you take your telephoto lens with you !
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My E6 and E7 on the layout . The slotted pilots are a detailing project I finished last week.
DC
Seneca Falls interchange bridge bears this fast drifting J trailing smooth-sided passenger cars.
Garry, Nice work on the spurs and the markers on the caboose.
Grampy, Great pictures as always
Robby, nicely weathered car there!
Jarrell, love the coloring on the alcos! Aren’t they are a bit too clean for alcos though?[(-D]
Some more weathering from me this week:
Trying to get those empties to the mine before the next storm rolls in…
Have a good holiday weekend!
Lee
Here is my contrabution for the week…
A few progress shots. I just snapped a few photos to see if it was looking awful or not. I have much work to do.
This is all I have to contribute for the weekend, I decided that it was time to take lessons learned from previous projects and start another scratch build project, this time it is not a locomotive but a freight car! more specifically a BN/BNSF taconite car
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=704585
This is going to be my “master” car, the master will consist of 3 parts: the tub, the bottom and a jig for the end bracing. Once I finish the tub and bottom I will start casting roughly 200 of these critters out of resin…and with my luck some one will produce these in plastic just as I get mine painted…
Awful does not even come close to describing it.
I have the same building and I think yours looks great. Keep doing what you’re doing.
Last storm must a been a doozie, moved the station right off the foundation!
Chris
While out and about today I swung by N&W’s Slate Creek yard and caught GP9 740 .Slate Creek yard serves Slate Creek industrial branch.
Here we see the 740 pulling away from caboose #557777
This last shot shows the 740 coupled to a cut of cars. prepairing to swith them into train order.
